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How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet

Timelessness is as good a means to judge the importance and value of writing as any other and this article on how we lost (and now have rediscovered) interactivity by Douglas Adams, written in 1999 but still as relevant and enjoyable to read today is a perfect example. I’ve been misquoting a passage from this […]

Listening Devices

Whilst boffins in England were building concrete behemoths for their ‘Sound Mirrors’ to collect and amplify sounds to detect incoming enemy planes and Zeppelins across the Channel, it seems the Dutch were looking at amplification on more personal format.. I’m not sure if they preserved with these explosions of ear trumpet oddities but the English […]